Art Cards are tiny blessing of art, seeds of beauty sown at large into the world. The stories of these cards -- of how they "find" the individual, and how the individual finds them -- are themselves seeds which grow into narratives bearing fruit into the lives and stories of others. As such art cards stand as metaphor for each of us, each individual -- we ourselves are blessing of art written into the narratives and stories of each other. Our stories provide nourishment to our souls. And so it is that these cards and their stories, have come to be.

Simply the idea is this: we artists at Hope Chapel want to bless the world with art, with beauty. These cards were made by us, with the idea of handing them out randomly, leaving some to be found while giving away others directly. Nothing more.

But no art, no story ever really ends there, and so we have this blog. Each card is given an identifying number or word, by which it's course can be identified, it story (through blog entries) added to. Yet it may be that the story of any one particular card finds it resides within "the ongoing setting" of some wallet or bookmark, never to be passed around, and that as well is fine. Narratives intersect, connect, once or many times, and however it goes so does every narrative grow, and grows into larger stories. As our stories grow into larger stories they continue to grow and grow until ultimately we find ourselves (and these little cards) part of the largest story which we don't know entirely, yet are certain to which we belong, finding hints of it all here.